We’re going big on beats, tackling both programming and mixing drums, with tips for crafting better acoustic and electronic sounds (and all without a human drummer in sight) When you purchase through ...
Action Drums: Boom Jinx Breakbeat Edition is a modular loop library that combines acoustic and electronic drums. This edition focuses on a tempo range of 110-160 BPM, but as with all of Nine Volt ...
Early in the evening on Wednesday last week, a crowd packed into the pink-and-blue confines of the Elvis Guesthouse, a narrow basement bar in New York’s East Village. They were there to hear some ...
If you’re a musician looking to add drum beats or loops via a pedal, a Finnish company called Kovaluu has unveiled a cheap solution. Its app for iOS and Android, called Beats and Loops, transforms ...
Back in the late 1960s, creating music anywhere was made much easier with a now iconic toy-like pocket synth called the Stylophone. Now Dubreq is aiming to do the same for beat makers with a portable ...
Air drumming’s all very well, but you’re either miming to a song blasting out of some speakers, or making horrible spitty drum noises with your mouth. So get yourself a PocketDrum (from £56) set ...
About 10 years ago, a disgruntled pianist in Los Angeles named John Wood began a popular bumper sticker campaign with the slogan, "Drum Machines Have No Soul." Not everyone was convinced, including ...